"Meteor" is a mini-series which contains two episodes, around 90 minutes per episode. It has been released on Scandinavian DVD, rated 15 in Norway.Basic plot: A giant meteor is on the way to Earth. Dr. Lehman (played by Christopher Lloyd) is the only one who can prevent the destruction to happen, but gets killed by a car. So it's up to his younger assistant Imogene O'Neill (played by the unconvincing Marla Sokoloff) to prevent this to happen. The event with several small meteors which hit some of the Earth's cities is just nothing compared to what awaits the world's humanity.This is my story about this film. It might drags on, but I honestly wanted to share this story to you readers anyway:I was asked by my big sister (who owns a DVD-copy) if I wanted to watch this with my family, and I simply said "no thanks". I didn't tell her why, but even the DVD-box didn't made me interested in this film at all. So my mom came to me minutes afterward to ask me why I didn't want to watch this. OK, OK, I just had to watch it then...My instinct of this film was right; this was one God awful mini-series. I just so forgot nearly all of the content in this. To be honest, I didn't pay attention to this at once. I only know of the special effects so hilarious bad, that I just wanted to laugh to it. And please don't get me into the stupid clichés crammed into this long crap. I mean, if I really watched this, I would guaranteed have gotten traumas of such bad film. This literally was a disaster film. Actually, I didn't said one single word about this.Thank you, my family, for wasting my three hours by making me to watch this.So here's my conclusion: Watch "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact" instead. This one is an INSTANT AVOID!!! End of story. Period.

Dear GOD. Perhaps the worst movie I've ever seen. From the blatantly obvious mistakes and continuity issues that will have you laughing out loud, to the "made out of foam" rubble, this movie plays as more of a comic version of "What not to do" film school training film! DON'T waste 4 hours of your life. How did SyFy manage to find the money and the bigger name actors to support this bowl of mush? Just awful. I feel sorry for anybody who actually spent more than an evening to completely watch this mess. Of course, I never go into any SyFy made movie expecting much at all, but even this was definitely bad for a SyFy made for TV film.

I rented the DVD of this movie without knowing much about it. First I was surprised that it runs a shade longer than 3 hours. In fact the DVD has what amounts to two 90-minute movies on it, "Meteor Part 1" and Meteor Part 2." So we watched them on consecutive days. Then, it seems this was a made-for-TV movie, but I don't know if it was ever shown that way. I can't find out much about it.I was entertained. The premise is that an asteroid about 60 or so miles across has collided with another body to change its course. Now it is headed straight to Earth, and in particular it seems southern California. A heavenly body this large could end life on Earth, much as is theorized happened millions of years ago to make dinosaurs and other species extinct. The movie has pretty good actors. Bill Campbell is Jack, a policeman. Marla Sokoloff is Imogene, the brunette scientist who has the coordinates for a possible shoot-down using nuclear warheads on rockets. My favorite of course is Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Lehman, the scientist who first discovers the Earth is in danger, and colleague of Imogene's. Stacy Keach is good as the small town sheriff Crowe. And Jason Alexander is a serious role is Dr. Chetwyn at the JPL, trying to figure out the right coordinates. While Ernie Hudson as Gen. Brasser is putting pressure on everyone in the underground location to give him launch data.We were irritated by the three stories. The main one of course was to see if the Earth could be saved. But there also was a story of a school bus of children that got hit by a wayward meteorite, brought to a hospital, which was then hit by another. Can they dig out and survive? The third story was about a rogue cop who was out to get back at Jack by capturing his daughter and father and killing them in Jack's presence. I would have preferred a 2-hour movie that stuck to the main theme.I only enjoyed the main story, I was fascinated by how they might defeat a giant rock headed to the Earth. But I have lots of issues with the movie, how things were depicted, and the dialog. Foremost a "meteor" is simply the flash of light we see as a meteorite or other object enters the Earth's atmosphere and begins to burn up. The large rocks that are in space heading towards us, or the parts that actually hit buildings, school buses, or the ground are NOT "meteors." They are meteorites. Why did they want to be dumb about it? Anyway overall it is definitely a "B" movie, and we often found ourselves laughing at the absurdity of certain parts of the movie. Otherwise competent people kept running out of gasoline in the middle of nowhere, or drove out of range of cell towers, or had low batteries in their cell phones, all of which was necessary to build drama. It would be quite a stretch to call it a good movie, but it is mostly entertaining.

I'm usually not this rough on a show, but boy, this seemed like a lot of money given over to amateur movie makers. This so bad, it should actually be studied by film making classes - almost everything that can go wrong has gone wrong in this movie.I'm not even sure how to relay how bad this was ... but maybe some examples may help: 1) The old "oops - we ran out of gas" routine was used "twice" to advance two different story lines - can you imagine how bad that looked? 2) The fate of the world hinges on info about to be relayed over a cell phone, but just then, the car enters a mountainous area and loses cell reception (I guess backing up is more annoying than saving life on the planet) ... and then eventually runs out of gas. Of course, they're really out of luck now, but ... miraculously, the cell phone starts ringing.3) A big bad guy named Dwight, who's ready shoot people AND police with terrorist grade weaponry, turns into a puppy dog after the sheriff tells him to "think about it" (which takes him all of 8 seconds).4) Life on earth hinges on the calculations of a 20-something year old girl running around with a laptop. Her qualifications? She's an "assistant" to a scientist. If they told us that she at least had some sort of credentials, that would have helped - but they didn't.5) The "bad guy's never really dead" routine is taken to the extreme. One of the main characters of this story is beyond stupid: instead of killing a guy who has been on a murderous rampage (which almost included his daughter), he puts him in the back seat of his car in mickey-mouse handcuffs ... go figure. It doesn't end there either - there's so much more brainless decision-making involving the bad guy, you eventually want the bad guy to rid the world of "good-guy" morons.6) There's so much incredible dialog ... check this out - the girl wants to use the phone after the wireless lines go down: Man: $50 for the phone.Girl: That's ridiculous. I'm a scientist.She's a scientist??? Oh, OK - I guess that means she's either a superior being or that she's looking for the super-saver rate for scientists. Geeze.I could go on, but it's so nuts it's almost epic. If you're aching for a disaster movie and have absolutely nothing else available, see it only if you have fast-forward capability. It'll save you some of the torture.